The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-09-17
Special Notices.

ported by all who love their party better than
few individuals in it. As matters stand to- day.
there is every prospect that considerable num-
Der of the gentlemen named will be elected.
REFORM WITHIN THE PARTY
We believe and assert it to be the duty Of party
men to fight for reform within their party so long
there is hope to correct evil but when bosses
rings, and factions have taken the party by the
throat and laid their strong hand upon all its ma
chinery so as to make fight within the party
hopeless, then men who look upon party org,ni-
cation as means of doing public good, and love
its principles, are compelled to fight the powers
within from without. When proper medicines
judiciously given within, fail to cure the cancer
Gus sore then the knife must be applied from the
outside for the restoration of sound health.
OUR PARTY IS DISEASED y
to-day, not merely as above stated, but in many
particulars that will be specifically given in other
newspaper articles and from the stump during the
campaign. We want to see it cured and put in
position to accomplish that good for the pablic
which is its boosted mission. The remedy we
propose may seem harsh, but we can assure the
public there is no harm threatened to the party at
all. The only danger is to those who think they
are the party and own our voters; to them who
think they own our organization to be used for
their personal purposes exclusively. Year after
year we have seen nominations made by bosses
through knavery and trickery, and we have fought
against such things Gin the party" with some
faith in the false promises of our political masters.
These promises have been given only to be broken,
and political matters have been growing from had
to worse until politics here have fallen into dis
grace, and many Of our best laws sleep upon our
statute books as dead letters. Official position
has been prostituted to personal purposes, and
official dishonesty smiled upon as a clever piece
of electioneering
THE SUCCESS OF THE PoTAToE BUGS,
in 1875, did not ruin the Democratic party, nor
bankrupt the county ON the contrary the party
was upon its good behavior for sometime after,
good nominations made and former maiorities re-
gained. This political good was accomplished by
the defeat of our candidates in one election, and
the public business went on fully as well as usual
And so it will be now. If we are disappointed 10
the hope of electirg portion of our ticket not an
extravagant hope at all as public feeling now ex-
lists, and the Republicans succeed in electing their
ticket portion of it, we but maintain our honor
and our manhood and throw the blame where it
properly belongs, viz: upon the rings, the cques
and the bosses in the party, who seek to run it for
their own base ends If they will persist in hold
ing such primaries and such conventions as they
have lately treated US with, and nominate such
candidates as they haze given US, they must ex7
pect the party whip to fail them and tske all the
blame of defeat in the election. There no better
time than just now to give them good lesson.
FAREWELL TO FAIR ELECTIONS.
Inc DrleIeSC reUectlOn must convince all VINO
know those whom the late, so-called, primary
meetings have put in power again, thatthe Exec
utve Committee is composed in many of the
districts that no one can have hope to success
fully oppose our present masters and bosses in any
future primary meetings. That those meetings
will be conducted in the interest of one clique
only. There are many honorable and respectable
men in the Executive Committee, but unfortu-
nately they are in the minority. With these facts
hofn oil hono IF rafor Until in fho RI
defeat of self-constituted bosses and managers,
vanishes.
VeHV few men countenance unfairness in cleo
tons, but the number rapidly increases When
we understand and fully know the influences I'M
der which they will be conducted in the event Of
the success of the regular Democratic ticket So
called, we must own with blush of shame on our
faces, that the prospect for honest elections is
dark indeed.
In the name of all that is honorable and manly
we appeal to our fellow Democrats not to be sway
ed and Influenced by promises of office and posi-
ton There is not an Office to be filled in the
county that was not promised to three or more
different men during the primary contest. To
make room for a few of these people, one of the
candidates for County Commissioner has already
declared that every holding office under
our County Commissioners shall be turned out,
when the new board is elected. And one leading
man, who supposes himself omnipotent, has prom
ised that the entire School Board shall be changed
next January. We hope this was very rash
promise. and fully believe it was, knowing our
judges have not authorized politician to speak
for them. People must know that all such promi-
ses are worthless and made only for campaign
purposes, and where one of them is redeemed, a
full score of them are broken.
By order of the Executive Committee.
GEO. W. HOOK, Chairman.
A. A. PIPER, Secretary. [Sept. lit